Peter Hammer Verlag 2011

It ‘s as if one has wandered through the alleyways of Rotraut Susanne Berner’s Wimmel books and is now standing before a completely unexpected scenery: life behind the facade of bustling activity, all sorts of pleasures, colourful folderol and minor to middling mishaps. As if all players – children, adults, cats, dogs, flies, snails, fish – were suddenly standing in front of their homes, each one isolated from the others, not fearful, but removed from daily life. As if they were standing expectantly there and wanted to tell us something – something that each and every one of them urgently has in mind....